MARCUS GARVEY BLACK NATIONALIST & BACK TO AFRICA PROPONENT PORTRAIT BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$354.00 (Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
7
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, February 24, 2021 9:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #231 Part I
Value Code:
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Item Description
1.25" w/"Phila. Badge Co." on curl & union bug back stamp. Text "Hon. Marcus Garvey Provisional President Of Africa." Light surface wear only in reflected light. Exc. In the early 1920s his Universal Negro Improvement Association was the largest secular organization in African-American history. Whites considered him an agitator and J. Edgar Hoover prosecuted him for mail fraud in 1923. After two years in prison, he was deported to Jamaica, his birth country. Mike Nichols Collection.
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